Transformable screen-door.



No. 647,89I. y uPatented Apr. I7, |900.

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(Application led Jan. B, 1900.)

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ALICE M. sTovER, oE GUTHRIE CENTRE, Iowa.

lIRANsl-'oruvlAeLE SCREEN-Doon;

SPECIFICATION forming parl of Letters Patent No. 647,891, lated April 17, 1.9050.

Application filed January 8, 1900. Serial No. 679- (No model.) l

.To a/ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALICE M. STOVER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Guthrie Centre, in the county of Guthrie and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Transy formable Screen-Door, of which the following is a specification.

One object of this invention is 'to provide a combined screen and storm door which may be readily, quickly, and easily transformed from the one to theother and which will pres ent a door of strong, neat, and durable construction when used either as a screenor storm door.

My object is, further, to provide a door of this class in which the outer surface of the door will not be defaced or injured by frequent attachments of the storm-protecting portion, so that its usefulness as a screen-door is not diminished, and, further, to provide a storm-protecting attachment which may be readily, quickly, and easily applied when desired and which will present a finished appearance, and, furthermore, to provide an attachment of this sort which may be easily and quickly removed from the screen-door and folded and rolled into a comparativelysmall space for storing during the summer months.

My invention consists in certain details in the construction of the storrn-protecting attachment, in means for connecting the flexible body of the attachment with the strips for holding same to the door, and in the arrangement and combination thereof with a screendoor, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in Iny claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure l shows a front elevation of the combined door ready for practical use, part of the storm-protecting body bengbroken away to show the screen behind. Fig. 2 shows a transverse sectional view of thev same. Fig. 3 shows one corner of the body of the stormprotecting attachment and also dotted lines to indicate the point at which the same is folded under the connecting-strips. Fig. 4 shows one of the connecting-strips for secur ing the flexible storm-protecting attachment to the door. Fig. 5 shows a transversesectional View of one of the side pieces of the screendoor frame and a modified form of the con-` necting-strips fixed thereto. Fig. G shows a similar View of another modication. Fig. 7 shows a sectional View of another modification.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, I have used the reference-numeral 10 to indicate the frame of the screen-door, which is of the ordinary construction and which has wirenetting 11 secured to its outer surface in the ordinary manner. A raised bead 12 is fixed to the outer surface to serve the purpose of holding the wire-netting in place and also to finish the face of the door. The storm-protectin g attachment comprises a series of metal strips toV extend along the sides, top, bott0m, and central portions of the screen-door frame to secure the flexible storm-protecting part to the screen-door frame. These strips are all of the saine construction, and hence but one will be hereinafter fully described.

The reference-numeral 13 is used to indi-Y cate the strips, which, as before stated, are made of sheet metal, with their edges'14 bent inwardly to points near a central line, with a slight space between said edges at the body of the strip, thus providing a strip with rounded edges at 15 and of a width to extend from the said bead 12 to the outer edge of the screen-door frame. As will be seen in Fig. 4, these inwardly-turned edges 14 do not extend to the ends of the strip, and in the central portion of each of these ends an opening 16 is provided, through which a screw 17 may pass. For each of the aforesaid st rips I have provided a flat rod 18 of a width somewhat less than the distance between the edges 14, and preferably this fiat rod 1S is fixed to the top of the strip between the edges 14 and at both ends of said rod; However, the rod may be disconnected, if desired, and held in place by being inserted under one or both of the edges 14E, as shown in Fig. 7.

The flexible body of the kstorni-protecting attachment is indicated by the reference-numeral 19 and may be made f oil-cloth, canvas, or the like, and at each corner thereof the material is cutaway at 20 and 21 for the purposes hereinafter set forth.

In practical use the attachment is connected with the door and with a iexiblebody 19 as follows: First, the edge of the flexible body 19 is bent inwardly along the indicated ssA IOO

vline 22 of Fig. 3, and this edge is inserted into the `openingin the strip 1,3 beneath the flat rod 18. Then in case the flat rod is secured to the strip the flexible body will be securely held to the strip by the rod; but

4 when the rod is not secured to the strip it is only necessary to force the edge. of therod, together with the flexible body, between the .edges 14 and .the body of the strip, which it will bind and securely hold-the iexible body to the strip. Each ofthe four strips is se- "curedto one of the edges of thisflexihle body, as set forth, and then these strips are placed upon the outer surfaceof the. screen', door. Then all of the slack in the liexible body4 is taken up, and the screws 17 are -vpassed through thefopenings in the f endof thestrips andinserted into thescreen-.doorframe. lIt is obvious that the'exible body cannotfbe stretched'smoothly. and evenly in theman ner; described and byhand, and there."-v

fore, I havel arranged that the4 star-ips, shall` PaS Outside.. off the raised bead l2. I t-,will

b eseen thatf when the screws 17 are. dri-ven home,k the flexible body will be draw-n; taut over the said bead, and thusk all slack, in `the body19 will be taken up, and thesamewill bey stretched smoothlyl and evenly. oven the door, and the complete door will present a finished appearan- Ani allxilary Strip 23 isthenplaced over the central portion offthe door to; serve as a brace; but 'this strip is notattachedfinanyway to the-llexble body, When-itisidesired toremove the stormfiprof' tectingattachment from the door,itis .only necessary to takey out the `four corner-screws and then `detach the-end strips'frolntheflexiblebody, tlie-stripsY 23 being, 0f Course, first removed. d Thellfthese stripsarelplacedparf allel with oneof thesde strips, andthealexi# ble, body may then bek wound around these `strips'arld when tied-acompactbundlemay 'be formed .which may be stored in a comparatively-smallspace. x In the modification shown inFig. 5 the strip 24 is provided with only oneunderturned. edge 25, which is atitsouter side. The flat bar'26 is provided, that will clamp the edge of the llexible body to the under surface of lthe strip 24 when the strip is secured to a door-frame. This rounded edge will present a smooth surfaceonthe outer side of the door, which in some cases is suliicient.

In Fig. 6 I have shown a door-securing attachment in which two strips 27 and 28 of vsubstantially the same size are used. These strips are preferably made of hoop-iron, and as thisis thickerl than sheet metal, of whiehthe other4 strips are made, no underturned edges are necessary, and the leXible body is clampedrbetween the two strips.

Having thus described the devce,`wfhat I claimasmy invention, and-desire to` secure byfvLetterS Patent-offthefUnted States. therefor is-..1

l. A combined screen-,and storrndooreomprising a screen-door frame,` aseriesoil strips @aehhavine. a, recess. therein, rods; to enter the'recessesand:@lamperlexblelstormfdoor body therein, afleXiblestorm-door body hava ing; .corners cut out-yas'setforthandconn eted withsaidstrips, and 'u ieansdforsecur f ingV thestrips to thedooreframe substantially Witnesses:

`REUBEN G. ORWIG, THOMAS G. ORWIG. v 

